1. Stephen G. Hanchey
Mr. Hanchey has more than 35 years of experience in the design, implementation and
evaluation of international education and training programs worldwide abroad: ten
years in U.S. Government foreign affairs agencies and 25 years in higher education
and non-profit organizations.
One of the most effective and high priority approach to engaging with foreign
audiences is English language teaching. My public diplomacy programs have offered
school-based enrichment programs for disadvantaged youth in nine hard-to-reach
Afghan provinces and for youths enrolled in Afghanistan’s only academy of music, the
Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM). These programs have prepared young
participants, as alumni, to participate in embassy-sponsored cultural and educational
exchange programs in Central and South Asia, and as university graduates and junior
faculty to participate in short-term international visitor and exchange programs in the
U.S. I have developed partnerships between U.S., Afghan and Malaysian universities. I
helped organize a tour by the ANIM youth orchestra to the U.S. in 2013 that included
performances at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. At the national level, I have
helped to implement curriculum reform and have provided educational policy
guidance to ministries of higher education in Egypt and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan
from 2010 to 2013, I managed and monitored a $14.5 million portfolio of public
diplomacy projects and grants.
My previous experience has included engagement with the following U.S. State
Department exchange and youth development programs: English Access
Microscholarship Program; Middle East Partnership Initiative; Fulbright; Summer Study
of the United States (SUSI); Youth Study and Exchange (YES); English Language Fellows
Program; Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship program and others.
EL Specialist LLC, incorporated in the State of Louisiana in 2013, is currently in the
second year of managing a sub-regional project with an annual budget of $675,000
that is part of the Lower Mekong Initiative for the Regional English Language Office
and the Public Affairs Section, US Embassy Bangkok.